Hi Jason,

Thanks for the review.


On 6/21/19 4:56 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 04:09:16PM +0200, Dag Moxnes wrote:
Use neighbour lock when copying MAC address from neighbour data struct
in dst_fetch_ha.

When not using the lock, it is possible for the function to race with
neigh_update, causing it to copy an invalid MAC address.

It is possible to provoke this error by calling rdma_resolve_addr in a
tight loop, while deleting the corresponding ARP entry in another tight
loop.

Signed-off-by: Dag Moxnes <dag.mox...@oracle.com>
Change-Id: I3c5f982b304457f0a83ea7def2fac70315ed38b4
  drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 6 +++++-
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
index 2f7d141598..e4945fd1bb 100644
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
@@ -333,12 +333,16 @@ static int dst_fetch_ha(const struct dst_entry *dst,
        if (!n)
                return -ENODATA;
+ read_lock_bh(&n->lock)
Miising semicolon at end of statement. Sorry about that.
        if (!(n->nud_state & NUD_VALID)) {
-               neigh_event_send(n, NULL);
                ret = -ENODATA;
        } else {
                memcpy(dev_addr->dst_dev_addr, n->ha, MAX_ADDR_LEN);
        }
+       read_unlock_bh(&n->lock);
+
+       if (ret)
+               neigh_event_send(n, NULL);
neigh_release(n);
Can we write this with less spaghetti please, maybe:

static int dst_fetch_ha(const struct dst_entry *dst,
                        struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,
                        const void *daddr)
{
        struct neighbour *n;
        int ret = 0;

        n = dst_neigh_lookup(dst, daddr);
        if (!n)
                return -ENODATA;

        read_lock_bh(&n->lock);
        if (!(n->nud_state & NUD_VALID)) {
                read_unlock_bh(&n->lock);
                goto out_send;
        }
        memcpy(dev_addr->dst_dev_addr, n->ha, MAX_ADDR_LEN);
        read_unlock_bh(&n->lock);

        goto out_release;

out_send:
        neigh_event_send(n, NULL);
        ret = -ENODATA;
out_release:
        neigh_release(n);

        return ret;
}

Personally I find it more readable when the unlock is done in one place,

but sure, I can rewrite it the way you suggest if the reviewers agree that

that way is preferable.

Regards,

-Dag


Also, Parav should look at it.

Thanks,
Jason

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